Remote Principal Engineer, Scheduling and Availability

Summary

Join Calendly's Engineering team as a Principal Engineer to lead features and architecture, drive technical direction, and foster operational excellence. You will work with multiple technologies and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• Expertise architecting, operating, and maintaining high-traffic, high-availability platforms and systems
• Experience driving technical direction, leading complex problem-solving efforts, and guiding teams through challenges
• Experience driving zero-to-one development of key technical capabilities
• Experience performing a major architectural refactor; bonus if you have experience refactoring a monolithic application into microservices
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex systems to identify root causes and implement effective mitigations and resolutions
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and propose new solutions or improvements that align with organizational goals
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong collaborative skills and the ability to work effectively within a team, including remote and distributed teams
• Proven leadership capabilities with experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams
• Ability to adapt to new technologies, changing requirements, and evolving organizational needs

Responsibilities

• Architectural Design: Having a strong hand in shaping our technical strategy and North Star Architecture as well as guiding the design and implementation of services and components across the engineering organization
• Technical Leadership: Providing mentorship, guidance, decision making, and example implementations to enable engineering teams to deliver the right solutions and outcomes
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions; you will be engaged across initiatives spanning Calendly’s entire engineering organization
• Planning & Execution: Acting as a hands-on, key contributor and leader on critical “Big Rock” initiatives, delivering high output with high quality; participating in planning to define capabilities, goals, scope, milestones, and work breakdown in a manner that promotes incremental delivery and high impact
• Vision & Strategy : Developing and articulating the vision for core technical functions and their capabilities, defining their strategic value, and overseeing their evolution to meet future demands and enhance our overall platform

Benefits

• Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive)
• Equity awards
• Competitive benefits